How to Advertise a Website

So you have a website and are really anxious to get traffic to your site. Here are a few simple ways to advertise your website effectively.

Rashida Khilawala

Last Updated: Apr 9, 2018

Website advertising is part of most business plans nowadays, since the world revolves around the World Wide Web. One thing you need to be aware of is, that your website can be a major source of income for you. With adequate advertising and some out-of-the-box thinking, you can increase your income, while at the same time, promote your products or services. Here are a few options to consider.

Search Engine Optimization

You need to make sure that your content follows the rules of search engine optimization (SEO). This will make it more susceptible to be crawled by the search engines. If your website ranks higher on the search pages, it will be easier for people to find it. This is an almost no-investment advertising strategy. All you need for this is proper research and good content development.

Google AdWords

Get a Google AdWords account. This is responsible for increased page hits for many websites. There is some investment involved but the returns are high. Google will make sure that they publicize your website on all relevant web pages (that have a Google AdSense account). This way, even if someone lands up on another web page, there are major chances that they may visit your site as well.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is a great way to link the rest of the web to your site. They provide banner ads of related websites on your web pages. A reader coming to your site will get all the information you can provide him, and more from the ads. This will create goodwill for your site. More so, you get paid for the number of hits on the ads shown on your site. This is a win-win situation for you as well as the ad publisher.

Email

This is another neglected but very effective method to promote your website, and for Internet marketing of small businesses. In every official email that you send out, make sure that you add the URL to your website in the signature. This way, people will see it every time they receive an email from you. This may attract more traffic and they in turn will tell others as well.

Hire an Internet Marketer

If all the above steps seem a bit confusing to you then, you can hire a professional who will take care of the Internet marketing for your website. This way, you need not remove time from managing the business. More so, in this case, you will not need to go through a trial-and-error method, and the results will be instantly visible.